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is still known as Angrezfibad. In 1770 English Blzar, was fixed. upon
for a Commercial Residency, and -retained its importance until the
discontinuance of the Company's private trade. An extensive trade in
grain is now carried; on. English Bazar was constituted a municipality
in 1869: The income during the decade ending 19or-z averaged
Rs. 16,ooo, and the expenditure Rs., ig,ooo. In Igo3-4 the income was
Rs. v9,ooo, of which Rs. 5,000 was derived from a tax on persons. (or
property tax), and Rs. 4,000 from a conservancy rate; and the expen-
diture was IRs. 16,ooo. The largest building is the public,. kacheri
or courthouse, the former Commercial Residency, which is regularly
fortified, and within its walls are all the public offices, The District; jail
has accommodation for r 10 prisoners. A small embankment protects
it from the inundations of the Mabananda.
Ennore.-Village in the Ponneri tdluk of Chingleput District,
Madras, situated in 13° 13′ N. and 80° I9′ E., on the shore of the Bay
of Bengal and on the Madras Railway: Population (1901), 3,'192. Its
proper name is Kattivakkam. It was once a favourite resort for Euro-
peans from Madras, and contains several bungalows, built on the strip
of land between the sea and the backwater, in which they used to, stay;
but ` it has ceased to have , any attractions, owing to the prevalence in
recent years of virulent malarial fever. Ennore is now only a fishing
village and a centre of salt manufacture. The sand-dunes along the
coast at this point, which cover an area of about zo,0oo acres, have .
been almost all taken up by private persons and converted into casua-
rina plantations. This tree yields rapid returns, attaining, in favourable
localities, its full growth in about fifteen years ; and as there is -a lame
and increasing demand. for firewood in Madras, the enterprise, has
reached such proportions as to change materially the physical, aspect of
long stretches of the coast in this neighbourhood.
Eran.-Village in the Khurai tahal of Saugor District, Central
Provinces, situated in 24° 6′ N. and 78° 11′ E., at the junction of the
Bina and Reut% . rivers, 6 miles from Bamora station on the Indian
Midland section of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Population
(1901), 171. A most interesting collection of archaeological remains is
to be seen: on some high. ground near the village. There were at one
time several small Vaishnava:temples, but these are now in ruins. The
principal statue is a colossal Vardha, or figure of the boar-incarnation
of Vishnu, to feet.high and 15 ,feet long. A garland-of:small human
figures is sculptured on a band round the neck, and the figure bears
an inscription of the White . Hun king Toramana. From a record of
Samudra Gupta on a stone close by, it is inferred that this is one of the
oldest Brahmanical statues in India, and the coins found here show that
the place was inhabited before the Christian era. Another remarkable
. object is a great stone. column, 47 feet high, standing before the temples,
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